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Documentation Denialists
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This entry
on Julia Lerman's fine
blog, asked the question, "so very unusual that it wasn't covered in
the documentation?" This reminded me of a huge, old bugbear of
mine. Cowardly authors that always only demonstrate the obvious case,
while blatantly ignoring the near impossible cases that occur almost as
often as the obvious case. It often makes me wonder whether they
either haven't used the tech they are writing about, or they would mention the
difficult case, or they have but that them and their writing skills have been
bettered by the difficult case.
A third more sinister thought haunts me during paranoid times after extended
sleep deprivation, and that is that people who have mastered the difficult case
intentionally suppress it from public communication, leaving it to serve as
some nasty rite of passage into the Fellowship of the Dark Gurus.
Unfortunately I can't think of a single really evil example now, but in future
as these incidents occur I will be charting them on a special section on my
blogspace.
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GotDotNetNuke!
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Wow! My earlier misgivings evaporated
a few hours after the second, and successful installation. I can’t wait to start playing with some
custom skins and modules! This product
may still be a bit clumsy in more than a few areas straight “out of the box”,
but it doesn’t seem like there’re many issues you can’t fix yourself.